Cultural Diversity
History & Goals of Public Schooling
High Stakes Schooling
Pedagogical Responses- Theories
Pedagogical Responses- Approaches
100
Income, Occupation, Education
What is Socioeconomic Status.
100
Everyone is essentially the same (and should be). The other side of the spectrum from Patricularist ideology.
What is Universalist.
100
The grouping of students by ability.
What is Tracking.
100
Paulo Freire's brainchild.
What is Critical Pedagogy.
100
A reform approach which seeks to embed cultural pluralism into K-12 curriculum.
What is Multicultural Education.
200
Legality, Access, Rights, Nationality
What is Migration Status.
200
A type of schooling that devalues the social and cultural resources a student brings into the classroom, essentially "taking away" parts of their identities for the sake of learning.
What is Subtractive Schooling.
200
Currently, student academic achievement is defined by doing well on these.
What is Standardized Tests.
200
Lev Vygotsky's theory.
What is Sociocultural Theory.
200
In this approach teachers are encouraged to become anthropological researchers of their students and their communities
What is Funds of Knowledge.
300
Colorblindness, Privilege, Whiteness
What is Race.
300
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
What is Meritocracy.
300
Name a negative impact/result for students who score poorly on standardized tests.
What is no school promotion, no graduation/diploma, limited college and career opportunities.
300
Students are empty receptacles into which teachers must pour their knowledge and expertise.
What is Banking Concept of Education.
300
Name one critique of Multicultural Education.
What is encourages separatism, focuses on differences instead of similarities, turns students against their country...
400
Markers of diversity are social...
What is constructions.
400
The three influences that determine the goals of public schooling at any point in history.
What is Social, Economic, and Political.
400
Identify a pro (positive feature/impact) of using tracking at a school.
What is access to appropriate curriculum/support, normalizing difference, discouraging stigma, encouraging peer support/diversity, opportunities for lower track students to catch up, challenges higher track students.
400
This is the zone in which a student needs assistance from a more competent other in order to master a task.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development.
400
Identify a technique that the Funds of Knowledge approach encourages teachers to use in learning about their students' lives.
What is the interviews, exploring the community with the student, home visits...
500
Shared, Learned, Integrated
What is Culture.
500
Your answer to this question will completely influence and guide absolutely everything you do as an educator.
What is the question: what is the purpose of schools and the role of teachers therein?
500
Give an example from Kozol's Shame of the Nation that depicts the current inequalities in K-12 schooling.
What is economic disparity/school funding, racial/social/economic segregation, tracking for ability.
500
Which theory posits that all education is political, ie. teaching and learning is a political act.
What is Critical Pedagogy.
500
What are the "funds" in Funds of Knowledge?
What is resources students bring with them, community and home knowledge, expertise...
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